al-Qaeda invoked in US embassy at Jakarta threat
Reuters, Jakarta
A bomb threat against the US Embassy in Jakarta yesterday was conveyed to authorities by a pair of cell phone text messages signed, "al Qaeda," local officials said."We received an SMS at 11:22 (0422 GMT) saying, 'We will blow up the U.S. embassy in Jakarta in 30 minutes. Al-Qaeda,'" Desab Alkhoili, an officer at the Traffic Management Center told Reuters. "We received the same SMS again at 11:23." A US embassy spokesman confirmed the threat, as relayed by police, and said security officials searched the heavily-fortified compound and found nothing suspicious. He said it was the second such incident in recent days.
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